Old Glassworks

Old Glassworks is a Pennsylvania historical marker in New Geneva, Fayette County, dedicated 1955.

Fayette County · dedicated 1955 · New Geneva Rd. (PA 166), across from elem. school and near Friendship Hill site, New Geneva

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Half a mile east of here, 1794-1797, the first glass factory west of the Alleghenies was founded by Albert Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury under Thomas Jefferson. He was aided by skillful glassworkers from the Amelung factory -- Kramer, Gabler, Eberhart, Reppert, and Reitz. Factory closed in 1807.

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